Accelerate medical research with PubMed data now available in BigQuery

Medical professionals regularly consult PubMed, a database maintained by the National Library of Medicine (NLM) at the National Institutes of Health (NIH) that contains over 35 million biomedical articles and is growing by 1.5 million articles annually. However, traditional keyword searches may miss crucial connections. A pediatric oncologist treating a rare leukemia mutation might never find a relevant case study from another country simply because it uses slightly different terms. Pharmaceutical companies spend years manually reviewing literature for drug repurposing opportunities. Clinical trial matching remains a manual, time-consuming process that delays patient access to potentially life-saving treatments.

At Google Cloud, we're addressing this challenge by making PubMed data available as a BigQuery public dataset with vector search capabilities from Vertex AI (both BigQuery and Vertex AI Vector Search are FedRAMP High authorized), enabling semantic search of medical concepts beyond simple keyword matching.

Transforming oncological literature reviews with BigQuery ...